Avainsana: Squirrell Wants to Destroy Train Tracks

I Wake Up to the Sound of Helicopter, 2014. Oil on roller blind, 120 x 195 cm

Painting named The Squirrel Wants to Destroy Train Tracks and paintings from the same series picture environmental activism. They show moments from protest camps, meetings or nighttime poster mountings and express different feelings connected to activism.

Paintings are not activistic art, but paintings about activism. They demonstrate moments that are sometimes left out from public narrative.

Anonymous animal figures assimilate to fairy tales or illustrations. It looks like the society that appreciates individuality has problems on accepting activities that are made anonymous and not for one’s self-interest. Operatives could be as well energetic squirrel who wants to block a railway or birds who are feeding activist protesting on a tree.